Thursday, 19 April 2012

How Little Mole got his trousers

This is a
story after the cartoon with the same title, which won a Silver Lion in Venice.

Krtek (mole
in Czech) yearns for a pair of trousers with big pockets, to put all the things
he finds when he is digging.

As he doesn’t
know where to get them, he asks different animals in the country: the frog,
tailor bird, crayfish, snail… (a great number of animals) When he is about to
give up, a plant, flax, gives him all the instructions to follow in order to
get these trousers.

This is a
story of friendship and solidarity among animals and shows the process of linen
obtaining, which is very pedagogical for children.

My pupils
liked it a lot and I liked it too because of the rich vocabulary, the tender
illustrations and the adequate explanations in order for
the children to understand the origins of linen.

The
cartoon, very famous in the Czech
Republic, was published in over 80
countries, and there are many others with the same character.